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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
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It's no thick layer, topsoil, and it takes anything from centuries to millenniums to create.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
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You need this one too though, about what creates a soil
Weathering
https://opentextbc.ca/geology/chapter/5-4-weathering-and-the-formation-of-soil/
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
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So many interactions, and for you geologists
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-shifting-sands-soils-landscape-evolution.html
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
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less dust means more topsoil staying, doesn't it? But it also adds to a warming. While also seems to be part of what has made our earth livable, those atmospheric dust movements, seeding cloud formations.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
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so, is this even correct?
" Warming Arctic reduces dust levels in parts of the planet. Research finds antidesertification measures needed in tandem with emission reductions"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240425131503.htm
Not about the study, but about its conclusions.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
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It also acts as an aerosol, in some circumstances cooling earth
2022 " Atmospheric dust: How it affects climate, environment and life on Earth? "
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1058052/full
and 2023
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230117192916.htm
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
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"Wind erosion and dust from US drylands"
2019
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2650
and The Drylands Project. 2017
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/geosciences-and-environmental-change-science-center/science/sources-compositions-and
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Last post by
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It's not only about sand, but sand is part of what will make a topsoil.
https://www.americangeosciences.org/education/k5geosource/content/soils/what-materials-make-up-soil
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Last post by
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Dust is a tricky subject, it creates food insecurity, as with that American dustbowl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
But it's also about soil, that moves, atmospherically.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Last post by
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as with this 'feedback loop'
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240422120715.htm
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